Peter Pan, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH, sentence 57

It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.

Who acts: family, children · What happens: be, rummage, put, repack, wander, mind · To what, where: nightly custom, good mother, minds, things, many articles, proper places

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 custom	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 custom	det
4	nightly	nightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 custom	amod
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 mother	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 mother	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	amod
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 custom	nmod
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 asleep	mark
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 children	nmod:poss
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 asleep	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	cop
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rummage	mark
16	rummage	rummage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asleep	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 minds	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 minds	nmod:poss
19	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rummage	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 rummage	conj
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obj
23	straight	straight	ADV	_	26 morning	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 morning	case
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 morning	amod
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 repacking	punct
28	repacking	repack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 put	advcl
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 places	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 places	nmod:poss
31	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 places	amod
32	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 repacking	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 articles	det
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 articles	amod
35	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 repacking	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 wandered	nsubj:pass
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 wandered	aux
38	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 articles	acl:relcl
39	during	during	ADP	_	41 day	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 day	det
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wandered	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 custom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	family	the nightly custom			of every good mother	tree rules
2	is	present	mother's children	every good mother not said here			asleep property	tree rules
3	rummage	to-infinitive	mother's children not said here		children's minds			vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mind=Location
4	put	infinitive	mother's children not said here	things		morning		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal
5	repack	gerund	mother's children not said here	the many articles	children's proper places			tree rules
6	wander	present · perfect · passive		the many articles		day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
7	mind		children = child					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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